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Your briefing from the Databricks world.

A weekly briefing, every Tuesday morning. Releases, community questions, GitHub projects, hiring, finance, events. Plus an AI assistant that answers in your role's context.

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What you get

Every signal. One clean digest.

We pull, deduplicate, and rank what matters across the Databricks ecosystem — so you don't have to babysit ten tabs.

News
Product announcements, engineering posts, customer stories, and partner news from the Databricks blog — summarized.
Releases
Version bumps from the SDKs, CLI, Unity Catalog, MLflow, dbt-databricks, Delta, the Terraform provider, and more — summarized.
Videos
YouTube uploads from official channels and community influencers — summarized from transcript, grouped by week.
Projects
Trending repositories built on or around Databricks — from solution accelerators to OSS tools.
Community Q&A
Notable questions from Stack Overflow, Reddit, and the Databricks Community Forum.
Events
Data + AI Summit, regional meetups, webinars, and community-run gatherings worth your time.
Certifications
Every Databricks certification and accreditation — exam topics, format, prerequisites, and links to official sources.
Books
A curated reading list — Apache Spark, Delta Lake, lakehouse architecture, and modern data engineering. Hand-picked, with publisher links.
Built on top

Tools for reading the Databricks world.

Each tool gives you a different angle. Live activity, topic deep-dives, roadmap status, narrative digests.

Pulse
Live bubble cloud of what the Databricks world is talking about. Bigger means more mentions; greener means more attention than last period.
GAUnity Catalog 3.0
PreviewLakebase
AnnouncedCyber Risk Genie
Roadmap
Every tracked Databricks feature, status-stamped — GA, public preview, announced, deprecated — with the source post linked for every claim.
Topics
~60 topic landing pages — Unity Catalog, Genie, Delta Lake, MLflow, MCP, and more. Each one synthesized from the recent archive.
Digest
A narrative pass across releases, news, videos, and community Q&A — themes dominating today, this week, and this month.
Newsletter
Past issues of the Tuesday digest. Read a few before you subscribe — every release that matters, one curated take per week.
Sources
The 36 public inputs we read — news, releases, videos, community Q&A — with live last-seen timestamps.
AI assistant

An expert that knows your corner of Databricks.

Ask in plain English. The assistant searches today's news, release notes, community threads, trending projects, and community-creator videos — and answers with citations.

  • Grounded in our archive — no general-internet hallucinations
  • Sources are linked, numbered, and clickable
  • Search across videos, releases, news, projects, and community Q&A
Open the assistant
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brickster": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://brickster.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
MCP server

Or plug it into your own LLM.

@brickster/mcp-server exposes the same archive to Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any MCP-aware client — typed tools, no copy-paste, no leaving the chat.

  • Same retrieval surface as the on-site assistant
  • Five typed tools — search, releases, news, videos, books
  • One snippet to install, then restart your client
Read the install guide